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Cairo - Human Rights Watch on Tuesday demanded a probe of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and two other officials for “crimes against humanity” in a crackdown that killed hundreds of protesters. Security forces stormed two sit-ins of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares on August 14, 2013, resulting in what HRW termed...

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused top officials in Egypt of likely “crimes against humanity” in an August 14, last year crackdown in which hundreds of protesters were killed. Security forces stormed two sit-ins of supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares on that day, resulting in what HRW termed “one of the largest killings...

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(AP) -- on Monday urged the panel writing Egypt's new constitution to amend articles in the draft that the New York-based group says repress the rights of women and children and limit freedom of religion and expression. In a letter delivered to the panel, HRW said the draft upholds some political and civil rights, such as banning trials of civilians before military courts -- a...

Human Rights Watch on Monday urged the panel writing Egypt's new constitution to amend articles in the draft that the New York-based group says repress the rights of women and children and limit freedom of religion and expression. In a letter delivered to the panel, HRW said the draft upholds some political and civil rights, such as banning trials of civilians before military...

Rab’a Killings In Egypt are Likely Crimes against Humanity

published:12 Aug 2014

Rab’a Killings In Egypt are Likely

Rab’a Killings In Egypt are Likely Crimes against Humanity

The systematic and widespread killing of at least 1,150 demonstrators by Egyptian security forces in July and August 2013 probably amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today in ...

Egypt interior minister replaced in cabinet reshuffle

published:05 Mar 2015

Egypt interior minister replaced in

Egypt interior minister replaced in cabinet reshuffle

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has reshuffled his Cabinet and replaced the minister in charge of the nation's police, state media reported.
New ministers have been sworn in on Thursday for t...

Egyptian military forces's Black Site Torture Camps

published:29 Oct 2014

Egyptian military forces's Black Si

Egyptian military forces's Black Site Torture Camps

The world has heard a lot about the notorious Abu-Ghraib prison in Iraq and seen the leaked images of US soldiers torturing and sexually abusing Iraqi prisoners. Something similar has been taking plac...

Rab’a Killings In Egypt are Likely Crimes against Humanity

The systematic and widespread killing of at least 1,150 demonstrators by Egyptian security forces in July and August 2013 probably amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today in a report based on a year-long investigation. In the August 14 dispersal of the Rab’a al-Adawiya sit-in alone, security forces, following a plan that envisioned several thousand deaths, killed a minimum of 817 people and more likely at least 1,000.
What Egypt Should Do:
End excessive use of force in policing demonstrations
What UN Member Countries Should Do:
Urgently establish an international commission of inquiry to investigate mass killings of protesters; Suspend all sales and provision to Egypt of security-related items and assistance
صور من أحداث فض اعتصامي رابعة العدوية والنهضة في 14 أغسطس 2013

Egypt interior minister replaced in cabinet reshuffle

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has reshuffled his Cabinet and replaced the minister in charge of the nation's police, state media reported.
New ministers have been sworn in on Thursday for the ministries of culture, tourism, agriculture, communications, vocational education and training, higher education, and residence.
Officials said Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim was replaced by another police general, Magdy Abdel-Ghafar.
Ibrahim was among the top Egyptian officials that Human Rights Watch urged to be probed for "crimes against humanity" over deadly 2013 clashes between security forces and protesters in the country.
An audio recording obtained by Al Jazeera last month suggested that Ibrahim gave the green light for using automatic weapons against protesters.
Ibrahim's removal comes after an uptick in bomb attacks blamed on armed groups targeting the heart of the heavily protected Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Yehia Ghanem, a well-known Egyptian journalist and resident fellow at New York's City University, told Al Jazeera that "the main objective of such a reshuffle is to calm down segments of society angry over eroding security and flagrant violations of human rights".
He also said the fact the reshuffle came just a few days before the country's major economic investment conference showed that Sisi believed political change was needed urgently.
"The situation in Egypt is getting more critical, because if it was not that critical no sane person would make that reshuffle just days before that very important conference on rehabilitating the Egyptian economy," he said.
It is the first cabinet reshuffle since Sisi, a solider-turned-politician, took office in June. A year ago he led the military ouster of the Mohamed Morsi, the nation's first freely-elected leader.

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published:05 Mar 2015

updated:05 Mar 2015

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Egyptian military forces's Black Site Torture Camps

The world has heard a lot about the notorious Abu-Ghraib prison in Iraq and seen the leaked images of US soldiers torturing and sexually abusing Iraqi prisoners. Something similar has been taking place in Egypt in the aftermath of the July 2013 coup which ousted Egypt’s first democratically-elected president. As Egyptian prisons were being crammed with political detainees, stories of torture and abuse began emerging. Women, men and children brutally abused and tortured but the worst fate has befallen those held in secret prisons controlled by the army and the ministry of interior such as Al-Azooli prison in Al-Ismailia which has since been dubbed the Abu-Ghraib of Egypt.
l-Azooli prison is a military detention centre housed within Al-Jala’ military camp in Al-Ismailia. Originally built to hold army officers and those being tried in military courts, the prison was named after General Al-Azooli who was notorious for brutally torturing prisoners.
It is considered illegal to detain civilians at Al-Azooli prison according to Egyptian law. And because the prison falls outside the jurisdiction of the executive and judicial branches, its wardens have been acting with total impunity. Testimonies emerged of people being forcefully disappeared and taken there where they are tortured and abused.
Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR UK) obtained testimonies from detainees held there, families and lawyers who revealed there are two types of prisoners; those held on criminal charges awaiting trial before the State Security Courts and political detainees who have been abducted by police officers dressed in civilians clothes and kept at Al-Azooli prison for periods up to 7 months in some cases without being able to contact their families or lawyers.
Testimonies also referred to the brutal torture methods used at Al-Azooli which include electrocution, pouring boiling water and oil on prisoners, and sexual assault. In some cases, detainees died as a result of torture. Other detainees remain held there without their family having any knowledge of their whereabouts.
Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK (AOHR UK) confirms that Egyptian authorities are operating extrajudicial secret prisons which have been transformed into torture centres worse than Abu-Ghraib in Iraq. And despite the brutality of these methods, the international community has remained largely unconcerned and has failed to take any steps to put an end to these detainees’ suffering. Egyptian authorities have interpreted the international community’s stand as a green light to persist with these abuses.
AOHR UK calls upon the UN secretary general to take swift measures and send a fact-finding mission to put an end to these abuses and close down these prisons.

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published:29 Oct 2014

updated:29 Oct 2014

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President Obama accused of crimes against humanity by Egyptians

According to Egyptian newspaper El Watan, a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes aga...

'Mass death sentences' for 183 in Egypt : 24/7 News Online

'Mass death sentences' for 183 in Egypt
An Egyptian court triggered an international uproar Monday, confirming a death sentence for 183 defendants.
The defendants were convicted of murdering 11 police and two civilians in August 2013, Egypt's state-run MENA news agency reported.
Those deaths came in an attack on a police station.
It followed a massive, deadly crackdown by Egyptian forces on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsy.
"Today's death sentences are yet another example of the bias of the Egyptian criminal justice system," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui of Amnesty International. "These verdicts and sentences must be quashed and all of those convicted should be given a trial that meets international standards of fairness and excludes the death penalty."
"Issuing mass death sentences whenever the case involves the killing of police officers now appears to be near-routine policy, regardless of facts and with no attempt to establish individual responsibility," Sahraoui added.
"So far, 415 people have been sentenced to death in four trials for the killing of police officers, while the case against former President Hosni Mubarak, involving the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising, has been dropped. To date no security officers have been held to account for the killing of 1,000 protesters in August 2013," the organization said on its website. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty altogether.
Thirty-four of the 183 defendants were tried in absentia. All are permitted to appeal.
'Massacre and mass killings of protesters'
In July and August 2013, hundreds of demonstrators -- perhaps more than a thousand -- were killed by Egyptian forces in what Human Rights Watch said "probably amounts to crimes against humanity."
"The authorities have failed to hold even a single low-level police or army officer accountable for any of the killings, much less any official responsible for ordering them, and continue to brutally suppress dissent," the group said. It issued a 188-page report titled "All According to Plan: The Rab'a Massacre and Mass Killings of Protesters in Egypt."
Since August 2013, 343 police personnel have been killed, Egypt's Ministry of Interior says.
The battle for Egypt
At the heart of all this is the battle for control of Egypt that has gripped the country for four years.
In February 2011, strongman Mubarak was toppled.
Morsy, a longtime fixture in the Muslim Brotherhood, became Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2012. But he was deposed a year later in a military coup after mass protests.
Also in 2013, Egyptian authorities cracked down on former Morsy supporters. In December of that year, Egypt's interim government officially declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. (Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.)
Egypt's current government, led by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has called for a "religious revolution" and asked Muslim leaders to help in the fight against extremism. He has launched a war against terrorism focused particularly on the country's Sinai region where an extremist group recently pledged allegiance to ISIS.

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published:03 Feb 2015

updated:03 Feb 2015

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South Sudan: The U.N. Security Council may impose sanctions: VOA60 Africa 08 13

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North Korea: Accounts from Camp Survivors

(Geneva, February 11, 2014) – A new United Nations report has found that crimes against humanity are occurring in North Korea and calls for an international tribunal to investigate and hold perpetrators to account, Human Rights Watch said today.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/17/north-korea-un-should-act-atrocities-report

Deaths at protests marking Egypt's Rabaa.

Four people have been killed in Cairo during protests to mark the first anniversary of the Rabaa crackdown in which at least 1,000 people died.
The protesters were shot dead as Egyptian security forces on Thursday dispersed hundreds of supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, who had blocked several highways and roads in Cairo and Giza.
It was the first anniversary of the violent Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda Square sit-ins last year.
Human Rights Watch released a report on Tuesday that said last years' killings at the two protest camps were crimes against humanity.
HRW called for an international inquiry, urging the United Nations to look into six incidents involving killings of protesters by security forces.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of the New York-based rights group, and HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson, were denied entry into the country on Monday.
Egypt's government said the report was "characterised by negativity and bias" and relied on anonymous witnesses rather than neutral sources.

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published:14 Aug 2014

updated:14 Aug 2014

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Canadians Pro-Democracy protest the bloodshed and illegitimate military coup in Egypt (2)

At Ottawa - Canada Canadians Pro-Democracy Alliance held a rally in Ottawa on Saturday, September 7th at 3:00 PM in front of Parliament Hill to protest the b...

JAN 25TH EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION- sheikh Haitham al Haddad #anticoupLDN #r4biaLDN #Jan25th
WORLDWIDE MARCH TO RECLAIM OUR REVOLUTION
https://www.facebook.com/events/128168077358331/
Join us this Saturday 25th January, the third anniversary to the great Egyptian Revolution that inspired the world, in our march for freedom, dignity and social justice. We will march from Downing Street to the Egyptian Embassy (However we are in process of finalising the meeting point so keep an eye out if changes occur!)
Since the ousting of President Morsi on July 3rd, the military have continued in their atrocious crimes against humanity with human rights violations, mass killings, arbitrary arrests and torture. Thousands of peaceful civilians have been killed and arrested, merely for expressing their rejection of the coup and calling for the reinstating of democracy in their country.
Everything 25 January stood for is being threatened with the military dictatorship throwing Egypt back decades. We call for your attendance in response to the ongoing bloodshed in Egypt, the repression of their freedoms, the clear theft of our revolution by the deep state and ask you to join us in speaking out against the atrocities being committed and in restoring the people's mandate and legitimate right.
Be there. 25 January. Reclaim your revolution.

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published:23 Jan 2014

updated:23 Jan 2014

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Commemoration of Rabaa Massacre in Calgary

Commemoration of Rabaa Massacre in Calgary, Canada
Commemorating Rabaa Massacre in Egypt when about 1000 people were killed.
See Human Rights Watch report on "one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history":
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/12/egypt-rab-killings-likely-crimes-against-humanity

Hamas's military

Hamas's military
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah) is a Palestinian Islamic[7] organization, with an associated military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades,[8] in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the Middle East including Qatar.[9] Hamas or its military wing is designated as a terrorist organization by Australia,[10] Canada,[11] Egypt,[12] the European Union,[13][14] Israel, Japan,[15] the United Kingdom,[16] and the United States,[17] and is banned in Jordan.[18] It is not considered a terrorist organization by Iran, Russia,[19] Turkey,[20]China,[21][22][23][24] and some Arab nations.
Based on the principles of Islamism gaining momentum throughout the Arab world in the 1980s, Hamas was founded in 1987 (during the First Intifada) as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Co-founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin stated in 1987, and the Hamas Charter affirmed in 1988, that Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine, including modern-day Israel, from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.[25][26] The group has later stated that it may accept a 10-year truce if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders and allows Palestinian refugees from 1948, as well as their descendants, to return to what is now Israel.
The military wing of Hamas has launched attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. Tactics include suicide bombings, and since 2001, rocket attacks. Hamas’s rocket arsenal has evolved from short range, homemade Qassam rockets, to long range weapons that have reached major Israeli cities including Tel Aviv and Haifa. The attacks on civilians were condemned as war crimes and crimes against humanity by human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch

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published:30 Oct 2014

updated:30 Oct 2014

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Inside Story - Myanmar's 'crimes against humanity'

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